Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2100
Alabaster jar; walls notably thick (in some places 4 cms); in fragments, one place patched with plaster.
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- ID
- MFAB_06.1892
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- Department
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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- Classification
- Vessels
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- Findspot
- Pit G 2100 D
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- Material
- Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
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- Dimensions
- Height: 30.1 cm (11 7/8 in.)
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- MFA
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
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- Date of Register Entry
- about 2465–2323 B.C.
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- Notes
- This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. 1905-1906: Excavated by the Harvard University–Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1906: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
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- Remarks
- Object not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906).
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 419, fig. 239.
ID: HUMFA_B656_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2100
Description: Restored alabaster jar from G 2100 D: MFA 06.1892. [Image also known as: B7473_NS]
ID: HUMFA_B1590_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2100
Description: Restored alabaster jar from G 2100 D: MFA 06.1892. [Image also known as: B7858_NS]
ID: HUMFA_B1592_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2100
Description: Restored alabaster jar from G 2100 D: MFA 06.1892. [Image also known as: B7859_NS]
ID: HUMFA_C1598_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2100
Description: Cemetery G 2100: G 2100 D, fragments of alabaster jar (MFA 06.1892) in situ in pit, looking __. [Image also known as: C12655_NS]
ID: HUMFA_C1672_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2100
Description: Cemetery G 2100: G 2100 D, fragments of alabaster jar (MFA 06.1892) in situ in pit, looking __. [Image also known as: C11953_NS]
ID: HUMFA_EG019998
Subjects: Drawings: alabaster objects from G 2100
Description: Drawing by Nicholas Melnikoff: alabaster objects from G 2100: 36-1-2 (= MFA 47.1717) (model cup), MFA 06.1892 (jar), 36-1-3 (model dish)
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